Re: CGI in Mac Classic (8.6)
On 6/26/03 9:25 AM, Alain Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I have created dozens of HyperCard-based CGI programs. I am good at it. But as you all know HyperCard only runs on a Mac and, more to the point, Mac-based CGI programs react to the web by handling a particular Apple event, e.g. on AppleEvent. And the CGI ends with the command reply once the HTML has been built line-by-line. My problem is adapting this knowledge to MetaCard on the same Mac. This is specifically what I need to know: 1. Does MetaCard implement CGIs on a MacOS-Classic (8.6) by supporting the same on appleEvent mechanism ? 2. Is get appleEvent data with keyword supported? 3. Can I convert my HyperCard-based CGI to a MC-based CGI merely by opening my HC-stack with MetaCard? 4. Are there one or more ready-made examples of MC-based CGI programs for MacOS-Classic? 5. What is the minimal set of HTTP-response-headers that CGIs created with MetaCard 2.4+ are required to provide? Btw these headers were not necessary in MC 2.3, but now they are essential. Thanks you kindly for any help you may provide me to get over this initial hurdle in my mastery of MetaCard. I've created an entire GUI with MetaCard (e.g. FreeGUI), and I am currently creating three blogging stacks (2 clients and a server), but, so far, I have not mastered its CGI abilities. Please help me ( a fellow altruist who will be sharing his blogging stacks with the MC community ). Regards, Alain Farmer PS: A working sample script would be ideal. :) Stripped from my very old archive. You sure you still want to use OS 9 for CGI? #! master handle here to capture event from WebSTAR on appleEvent class, eventID, sender if class eventID WWWsdoc then pass appleEvent put unpackCGI() into theHTML reply HTTP/1.0 200 OK crlf \ Server: MC/2.3 ID/ACGI crlf \ MIME-Version: 1.0 crlf \ Content-type: text/html crlf \ Content-Length: length(theHTML) crlf crlf theHTML end appleEvent function unpackCGI # available AppleEvent: put ,kfor,refr,Agnt,Kact,Kapt,post,meth,Kfrq,svnm,svpt,ctyp,Kcid,Kcip into aeList put into theHTML repeat for each item aeEvent in aeList request appleEvent data with keyword aeEvent put aeEvent = it cr after theHTML end repeat return theHTML end unpackCGI ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
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Re: CGI in Mac Classic (8.6)
Alain, 1. Does MetaCard implement CGIs on a MacOS-Classic (8.6) by supporting the same on appleEvent mechanism ? yes. 2. Is get appleEvent data with keyword supported? yes. 3. Can I convert my HyperCard-based CGI to a MC-based CGI merely by opening my HC-stack with MetaCard? mostly yes. 4. Are there one or more ready-made examples of MC-based CGI programs for MacOS-Classic? yes. see below. 5. What is the minimal set of HTTP-response-headers that CGIs created with MetaCard 2.4+ are required to provide? Btw these headers were not necessary in MC 2.3, but now they are essential. A need for header is a function of the web server program. When using MacHTTP, for example, one may include headers but things work without them as well. But including header is trivial. The min header is: HTTP/1.0 200 OK crlf Server: MacHTTP crlf MIME-Version: 1.0 crlf Content-type: text/html crlf crlf PS: A working sample script would be ideal. :) You can have more than a script -- a complete startup project -- if you bother to go to http://www.robelko.com/metacard/starter-cgi.html This haven't been updated since MC 2.3 days but should work with only minor adjustments. Robert Brenstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
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Re: UNIX help?
|5. UNIX help? (Richard MacLemale) Perhaps it would be instructive to see a cgi script that is working? BTW, this is an old one, I now collect the post data in a loop, since we found we'd sometimes not get all the data. However, this should work for a form that is not too long. You will of course have to replace my qmail command with a sendmail equivalent. Sadhu #!/usr/local/bin/mc #* # #-= Web Stuff =- # # Program name: form.mt # Version number: 1.0 # Author: SN # Date: 10/9/01 # Description: Process web form messages # # # on startup -- collect the information from the form read from stdin until empty put it into url file:/tmp/itdata.txt put urlDecode (it) into formdata split formdata by and = -- email the form contents to the user put formdata into url file:/tmp/formdata.txt put /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject '$EMAIL' /tmp/formdata.txt \ into command_string replace $EMAIL with formdata[email] in command_string set shellCommand to /bin/sh put shell(command_string) -- respond to the user put Content-Type: text/plain cr cr put Your information is below cr put command_string put keys(formdata) into keywords repeat for each line this_item in keywords put this_item = formdata[this_item] cr end repeat end startup ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
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Re: Xavier Bury is out of the office...
I guess Xavier's absence is THE hot topic of discussion! I'd better look into it... ;-) Craig Today's Topics: snip 8. Xavier Bury is out of the office. Original subject: 'Xavier Bury is out of the office. Original subject: 'Xavier Bury is out of the office. Original subject: 'Xavier Bury is out of the office. Original subject: 'Xavier Bury is out of the office. Original subject: 'Xavier Bury is out of the office. Original subject: 'Re: UNIX help?'' ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Put URL Progress?
Is there a way to get/monitor the K downloaded when using the method put url DATA1 into url DATA2? I know this possible using libURL and libUrlFtpUpload, but how about put url? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: CGI in Mac Classic (8.6)
Hello everyone, I am currently experimenting with MacOS-Classic CGIs. I want to thank Liang Tyan and Robert for their help. The *script* provided in Liang Tyan's reply was particularly useful to me. I've got a MC-based CGI now running on my server. Awesome! :)) New problem : so far, the CGI only works when the client is a web-browser. When the client is a MetaCard stack it become buggy. When the version of the client-side stack is 2.4 then nothing happens. No error dialogs, but also no results whatsoever. When the version of the client-side stack is 2.5 then it does was it is supposed to, but only on the *first* try. On subsequent tries with v2.5, MC says error : previous request not completed. I wait a while, and a socket timeout dialog appears ... everytime!!! What is going on ??? Inference : It seems like a socket is being remaining open that needs to be closed. This is not something we would normally need to attend to when we're using simple syntax like put url myURL. Therefore, I believe that it is a BUG [for MacOS-Classic]. I hope I'm wrong and that there is something simple that I am overlooking. Help! Alain Farmer __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Card copy problems
Hi, I have a mainstack containing 4 substacks: 3 tests and one stack to collect the results from the tests. The reporting of the results is done by copying a card detailing a respondent's answers from one of the three tests back to the results substack (simple script: copy cd X of stack Y to stack Z, save all). The problem I'm having is that immediately following the testing session, I will occasionally do a quick check to see if the records have been properly copied and 'stored' in the results stack. Let's say that there are five respondents for a given session, and I can see all five of their test results. All is fine--or appears to be--but then later, after having quit the program and come back to it, I am finding that only one new record (card) has actually been copied and saved to the results stack. I don' t get it: it's always ONE card. If the stack were locked or could not be saved then why is one card being copied and saved? Why am I able to see all the copied cards when I navigate through the stack immediately following the test, only to lose them later? The curious link seems to be the quitting of the program.I am running mc2.3.2 on Win2K machines. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, I' ve been kinda pulling my hair out on this one... Norval ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Put URL Progress?
Hi Scott, It seems to me that the PUT URL is by nature a blocking command, and therefore not able to be 'multi-tasked'. In otherwords, the handler stops and waits for a result before proceeding. You might check with Dave on this, but my thinking is 'not possible in libURL' -- course I could be wrong. Of course, you could 'roll your own' if you wanted to. -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Put URL Progress? Is there a way to get/monitor the K downloaded when using the method put url DATA1 into url DATA2? I know this possible using libURL and libUrlFtpUpload, but how about put url? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Fun with Large Fonts
In Microsoft operating systems the user can set the default font size for controls, window titles, etc. According to the spec, an application should respond by querying the registry to get the current font metrics and adjust all controls to match the formatted width and height. If controls overlap as a result of this resizing, the window should be enlarged too accomodate them. That's a lot of work, and for little benefit: by the time the controls are resized to accomodate the text and the window is resized to accomodate the controls, the result is not much different from simply lowering the resolution of the monitor. But here's the punchline: this setting is set in the Display control panel, which in XP ignores the font size settings altogether. ;) So my question for you folks is: Do any of you know if this is a bug in XP's Display control panel, or is Microsoft now telling us we can also ignore the Large Fonts setting? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
